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- Art, Photographs
- April 4, 2011
Last years Blender Xmas party was awesome, and this year was right on par! As is usual with a Blender Xmas party, the artists studios were all set up with artwork for anyone to peruse, and Dark Horse Studio was arrayed with a rich collection of works by the same-said artists. I got down there
READ MOREOh ho ho ho … excuse me, while I get all excited about this one!Once again, the Blender Christmas party has come around, that time of year when all things Franklin St and creative celebrates another massive year of accomplishments by all the artists involved down at one of the cities finest artistic establishment!! “The
READ MORELast Friday night was a big one, and I started the night out down at Dark Horse Experiment to check out James Bonnicis latest show – In-Between Spaces. James work has always really impressed me, the man can fkn paint and has an absolute mastery of light! With the show almost completely selling out, it
READ MOREI’ve been enamoured by the work of James Bonnici for quite a while now, his beautifully rendered and contorted blurs of portraiture especially – and this Friday night he’ll be putting on a solo show at Dark Horse Gallery in the Melbourne CBD. “Through portraiture and landscape, my work explores how distortion, blurriness, light and
READ MOREI was having a cigarette outside a gallery opening some years back when I spotted my first Will Coles piece. No, it wasn’t in the gallery itself – it was stuck up high on a bit of guttering, glued in place – I’d only noticed it as I’d been half drunkenly staring up into space.
READ MOREWill Coles fucking loves Melbourne. And Melbourne fucking loves Will Coles back. Will’s iconic pieces are some of my favourite, something different in the street art world which I always welcome. Here’s a selection of some of the presents he left us last time he visited Melbourne (photos by Dean Sunshine). Looking forward to this
READ MOREThe other week we got to a new opening of Blender artists at the Dark Horse Experiment. There was a huge range of diverse work in the show, but one thing was obvious – it was all pretty damn good. Dark Horse Experiment is a great space that constantly pushes in new directions, and Confine
READ MOREThis Friday night, a whole bunch of Blender artists will be holding an exhibition at Dark Horse Experiment to show off their latest art. “Confine – Five Melbourne artists mine the possibilities of paint and sculpture through figurative deformations and social awareness. James Bonnici’s distorted figures have been receiving a lot of attention and this
READ MOREWelcome to 2012 all! We’ve had a pretty restful break – lots of painting and a few ciders here and there and a hell of a lot of relaxing and doing absolutely nothing – just what we needed!! So, catching up on a bit of a backlog, we have a whole heap of snapshots to
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